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This Beehive Puzzle challenges you to assemble the nine pieces to make a beehive shape. No squares of the same color touch each other. Pieces may be rotated, but not overlapped or flipped.
This puzzle is from The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers.
This book (one of my fave puzzle books!) is out of print and only available as a used book on Amazon, but you can still access quite a few of the puzzles for free, though.
Amazon’s Look Inside Feature lets you look at quite a few of the puzzles in The Big, Big, Big Book of Brainteasers for free. Just keep clicking “Surprise Me!” on the left pane to see a different page of puzzles.
I originally typed up this beehive puzzle several years ago, but I ran into a problem when I printed the puzzle pieces on white cardstock. It was too hard to see which square of the beehive still needed to be covered.
To fix this, I finally got around to re-printing the puzzle pieces on yellow cardstock. I laminated them for durability.
It definitely works better if you print the game board on white paper and the pieces on colored paper. I guess you could print them on two separate colors of paper, as well.
The gameboard is printed on 11 x 17 cardstock. If you don’t have the ability to print on this size of paper, I have also uploaded a letter-sized version.
Free Download of Beehive Puzzle
Beehive Puzzle – 11 x 17 VERSION (Editable Publisher Files & PDF) (1237 downloads)
Beehive Puzzle – 8.5 x 11 Version (Editable Publisher Files & PDF) (2016 downloads)
Want more puzzles? Check out my puzzles page!
Puzzle Solutions
I intentionally do not share solutions to the puzzles I feature on my website because I strive to provide learning experiences for my students that are not google-able. I would like other teachers to be able to use these puzzles in their classrooms as well without the solutions being easily found on the Internet.
However, I do recognize that us teachers are busy people and sometimes need to quickly reference an answer key to see if a student has solved a puzzle correctly or to see if they have interpreted the instructions properly.
If you are a teacher who is using these puzzles in your classroom, please send me an email at sarah@mathequalslove.net with information about what you teach and where you teach. I will be happy to forward an answer key to you.
More Shape Covering Puzzles
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- Terrier Pentominoes Puzzle
- Penguin Pentominoes Puzzle
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- Zigzag Overlap Puzzle
- Pyramid Puzzle
- Beehive Puzzle
- Pentasquares Puzzle
- Checkered Ornament Puzzle
- Cover the Shape Puzzle
- Cover the Heart Puzzle
- Cover the Camel Puzzle
- Cover the Duck Puzzle
- Decorate the Tree Christmas Puzzle
- Pyramid Challenge Puzzle
- Color Square Puzzle
